As Hurricane Kay makes its way up the Baja California peninsula, the National Weather Service has forecast rain for Phoenix and has issued a flood watch in Pima County west of Tucson.
Kay will move north in the next 24 hours and will curl westward, but is not expected to make landfall in the U.S., Phoenix NWS meteorologist Sean Benedict said on Thursday afternoon.
"This is a very large storm," Benedict said, adding the heavier rain will start to move through on Friday morning and continue through Saturday morning in southern Arizona."We'll probably see some isolated showers, maybe some thunderstorms, as well, in south-central portions of Arizona, and those could produce some heavy rains at times."
"But with heavy banding of showers and storms, you could see that rainfall amount go up pretty significantly. There's even low chances of 2 inches or more" in higher terrain areas, Benedict said.
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